Holographic display device and operation method thereof are provided. A holographic display device includes a light source device including a plurality of, light sources; and an imager including a plurality of imaging regions each corresponding to one light source. The imager includes at least one spatial light modulator configured to receive light from the plurality of light sources to form a plurality of holographic images.

A holographic display apparatus and a display method thereof are disclosed. The holographic display apparatus includes: a backlight source configured to supply a coherent reference light; an optical switch configured to modulate light wave amplitude information of the coherent reference light; and a phase control plate configured to modulate light wave phase information of the coherent reference light, wherein the phase control plate and the optical switch are arranged on a light exit side of the backlight source.

A complex light modulator including a first polarization plate, a second polarization plate provided, an amplitude modulator provided between the first polarization plate and the second polarization plate, a phase modulator provided between the amplitude modulator and the second polarization plate, and color filters provided between the amplitude modulator and the phase modulator.

An addressing method of a spatial light modulator, a holographic display device and a control method thereof is disclosed and relates to the field of display technology. The methods and device can simplify the addressing process of the spatial light modulator. The addressing method of the spatial light modulator includes the steps of: first dividing the spatial light modulator to obtain a plurality of modulation regions, each of the modulation regions including a plurality of pixel units; and then addressing one modulation region within a frame so as to load holographic data of a frame of a hologram to all the pixel units of the current modulation region.

The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology and provides an addressing method of a spatial light modulator, a holographic display device and a control method thereof, which can simplify the addressing process of the spatial light modulator. The addressing method of the spatial light modulator comprises the steps of: dividing the spatial light modulator to obtain one or more modulation regions, each modulation region comprising M loading subregions, and each loading subregion comprising at least one pixel unit, wherein M12, and M is a positive integer; and addressing one loading subregion of each modulation region within a frame so as to load holographic data of a frame of a hologram to all the pixel units of all the addressed loading subregions.

A holographic display includes a pixel array including one or more pixels, a holographic data source, a drive array, and a light source. Each pixel includes a phase-modulating structure and an amplitude-modulating structure. The holographic data source is configured to supply a holographic drive signal. The holographic drive signal includes, for each pixel in each of a plurality of time-varying holographic image frames, a phase component defining phase modulation for the pixel and an amplitude component defining amplitude modulation for the pixel. The drive array is configured to, for each pixel in each holographic image frame, modulate the phase-modulating structure according to the phase component and modulate the amplitude-modulating structure according to the amplitude component. The light source is configured to output coherent light to illuminate the one or more pixels of the pixel array.

Disclosed is a holographic display including a spatial light modulator (SLM) with pixels, the SLM pixels being on a substrate, the SLM including circuitry which is on the same substrate as the SLM pixels, the circuitry operable to perform calculations which provide an encoding of the SLM.

A holographic display device and a display method thereof. The holographic display device comprises a backlight module and two liquid crystal modules. The backlight module is used for providing coherent light; the two liquid crystal modules are located on the light exit side of the backlight module, and the two liquid crystal modules are stacked; one of the two liquid crystal modules is used for performing amplitude modulation on incident light, and the other one is used for performing phase modulation on incident light. In this way, the complex amplitude of exit light is adjusted, and the quality of a reconstructed image is improved.

A new optical arrangement that creates high efficiency, high quality Fresnel Incoherent Correlation Holography (FINCH) holograms using transmission liquid crystal GRIN (TLCGRIN) diffractive lenses has been invented. This is in contrast to the universal practice in the field of using a reflective spatial light modulator (SLM) to separate sample and reference beams. Polarization sensitive TLCGRIN lenses enable a straight optical path, have 95% transmission efficiency, are analog devices without pixels and are free of many limitations of reflective SLM devices. An additional advantage is that they create an incoherent holographic system that is achromatic over a wide bandwidth. Two spherical beams created by the combination of a glass and a polarization sensitive TLCGRIN lenses interfere and a hologram is recorded by a digital camera. FINCH configurations which increase signal to noise ratios and imaging speed are also described.

Disclosed is a holographic display including a spatial light modulator (SLM) with pixels, the SLM pixels being on a substrate, the SLM including circuitry which is on the same substrate as the SLM pixels, the circuitry operable to perform calculations which provide an encoding of the SLM.